Program Committee
プログラム委員

Ana is the OSPO Program Manager at the Linux Foundation project TODO Group, formed by an open community of practitioners who aim to create, share knowledge, and develop best practices practices on open source management in organizations and ¡ run successful Open Source Program Offices. Formerly she worked at Bitergia, where she finished her MSc in Data Science, whose final thesis focused on measuring DevRel’s success within Open Source development communities.

Dr. Andreas Fehlner works as software engineer for artificial intelligence in pre-development with a focus on transferring ideas in the field of AI to working products at TRUMPF Laser. He is passionate about the goals of Open Source for AI. As an elected member of the ONNX (Open Neural Network Exchange) Steering Committee, he is committed to establishing this standard. He also represents ONNX within the Technical Advisory Council (TAC) of the LF AI & Data project. He also is one of the Chairs of the Trusted AI Committee of the LF AI & Data project. 

Seasoned software builder and technology leader based in Seattle, Washington. Current research areas are on model serving and inference. Expertise in Open AI + Data, Containers & Virtualization. CNCF Ambassador at the Linux Foundation and Community Lead of Cloud Native Seattle. Packt tech advisory board. Guest lecturer at the University of Washington.  

Managed, built, and scaled numerous tier-1 products, new initiatives, businesses, and teams across various technical domains. Include Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), AWS App Runner, AWS Fargate, Amazon Alexa, and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). 

Public speaker and author. Actively lead cloud-native solutions adoption across organizations and engage in open-source projects like Kubernetes, Envoy, OpenTelemetry, gRPC, containerd, Firecracker, Kafka, and RocksDB.

Serve as the program committees for esteemed global conferences: Open Source Summit, Open Source Summit GenAI & ML Summit, KubeCon and CloudNativeCon, Southern California Linux Expo, DockerCon. Homepage: https://pengandy.com/

Anni Lai is passionate about Open Source and emerging technologies. Her current focus is Generative AI innovation and governance and holds positions of LF AI & Data board director representing the General Class members, Generative AI Commons Chair, and LF Europe Advisory board member. Prior to LF AI & Data, Anni also served on CNCF, OCI, LF Edge, Open Metaverse Foundation, OpenStack Foundation boards and committees and lead many community initiatives. 

Experienced engineering leader in AI, developer tools and open-source. My work for open-source projects has impacted hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide. Additionally, I’m a best-selling course instructor (170k+ students) in the fields of AI, Serverless Technologies, AWS and full-stack JavaScript development. Linux Foundation Program Committee member, specifically in Linux Foundation AI.

I’m committed to enable millions of full-stack web developers pioneer the adoption of AI. I’m a firm believer that as Generative AI becomes more and more accessible, traditional developers will pioneer its widespread adoption and implementation. This can only be achieved through proper tooling that neatly integrate with existing tools and workflows, knowledge sharing, and safety guardrails.

Recently, I have played a key role in bootstrapping impactful Generative AI projects such as Pezzo (backed by Techstars), an open-source AI monitoring and observability Platform, and CopilotKit, an open-source library that helps engineering teams integrate state-aware copilots into any application easily.

Throughout my career, I’ve bootstrapped many high-performance engineering teams at companies such as Serverless Inc., Amplication, and Abcam (ABCAM). I’m a firm believer in cross-functional teams with full domain ownership with a self-serve mentality. As various aspects of software become easier to consume (e.g. CI/CD, Gen. AI, Computer Vision, Cloud), this reality makes it possible for traditional engineering teams to be more productive, and I’ve been honored to play important roles in building the tools that make this possible.

Passionate about developer tools, productivity boosters, distributed systems, building scalable software, observability and monitoring, Node.js, cloud-native technologies and Generative AI.

Ayumi Watanabe is a core member of OpenChain Japan Sub Workgroup and known as a SBOM evangelist. Her strong point is a knowledge of many tools for SBOM generation and management, a wide range of experiences as an OSS management consultant, and strong connection with some communities regarding OSS compliance.

Chris Xie serves as the Head of Open Source Strategy at Futurewei, where he leads various strategic open source initiatives. His involvement in diverse open source communities has established him as a knowledgeable and strategic thought leader. Chris plays an active role in several key projects and committees, contributing to organizations like LF Research, LF Energy, Green Software Foundation, and OpenSSF, as well as the Todo Group (OSPO). Earlier in his career, Chris started a software startup company as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur , focusing on decentralized computing. Chris holds patents in network management and distributed systems, reflecting his strong technical expertise. Recognized for his cross-cultural leadership, he has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle Business News.

Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for CHAOSS where she is also a board member / maintainer. She is co-chair of CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy and an OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community, strategy, governance, metrics, and more. She has spoken at over 100 industry events and has a BS in computer science, an MBA, and a PhD. In her spare time she enjoys reading science fiction, running, and traveling.

Passionate about helping people discover the exciting world of artificial intelligence, Ezequiel is a frequent AI conference presenter and the creator of use cases, tutorials, and guides that help developers adopt open source AI tools.

Greg is among a distinguished group of software developers who maintain Linux at the kernel level. In his role as Linux Foundation Fellow, he continues his work as the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of subsystems while working in a fully neutral environment.

Hiro Fukuchi is OSPO and Senior Alliance Manager in Sony Group Corporation. He is working on Open Source strategy and relationship with OSS communities. He is a core contributor of OpenChain Japan workgroup from the beginning, ToDo Group and SPDX. He is a speaker at OSSEU(2019,2021,2022) OSSJP(2021,2022), regarding a regional community and OSPO. He is an English-Japanese translation volunteer regarding OSS community related document, such as OpenChain and SPDX specification. He was recognized for his leadership in the OpenChain Japan workgroup and received the OSS Award from Northeast Asia OSS Promotion Forum in 2022.

Hiroshi is a lead engineer of Kubernetes-based application platforms in LY Corporation’s Private Cloud Division. The company runs many large-scale applications on its Kubernetes-based platform, and Hiroshi is skilled in running applications stably at such a scale. He has also been instrumental in promoting Kubernetes in Japan. For example, he has authored several books, including “Kubernetes Practical Guide,” and has spoken at CloudNative Days Tokyo, Japan’s largest CloudNative tech conference.

Over 20 years experience in embedded-Linux field and manage OSS developer team in Renesas to boost upstream (mostly kernel space) contributions.

Kate Stewart works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. She has launched the ELISA and Zephyr Projects, as well as supporting other embedded projects. With more than 30 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles in software development, architecture, and product management, primarily in the tooling and embedded ecosystem working with international teams.

Kenta Tada has worked as a Linux engineer and a team lead for various organizations.

He has specialized in the Linux kernel tracing technologies and eBPF. In the past, he contributed to Linux kernel and BPF Compiler Collection (BCC) to improve the kernel tracing infrastructure. He also has contributed to some CNCF related projects including serving as a reviewer for the system validator used in kubeadm preflight checks.

In 2023, he reviewed the Japanese translation of the book “Learning eBPF” published by O’Reilly Japan. In 2024, he participated as an organizer of Cloud Native Community Japan (CNCJ), fostering the open source cultures in Japan.

Kosaku Kimura received the D.Eng. degree from Kyushu University in 2010. He is a Senior Research Manager at Fujitsu Research, Fujitsu Limited (formerly Fujitsu Labs).

After joining Fujitsu Labs in 2010, he had been working on the research and development of software development technologies on cloud services. His research interests are software engineering, model-driven engineering, services computing.

He is now working on a code generation-based automated machine learning (AutoML) technology.

Mary Hardy has more than a decade of specialized experience as an in-house open source attorney for large tech companies, advising on all aspects of the use of, creation of, and interaction with open source. She helps enable the responsible contribution to and adoption of open source AI. She has advised on large-scale Linux kernel contributions, corporate merger and remediation strategies on open source, and authored and delivered open source training to thousands of engineers.

I am a Staff Open Source Program Manager, leading the company’s open source business and community strategy alignment, and strategy consultations. Previously I led numerous programs that include large-scale DX/IT transformation as part of M&A at Cisco, security compliance process implementation, consumer platform development on Linux/Android/iOS at multiple blue chip companies. I began my career as a software developer in Japan, then worked in the US. I now live in the UK with English husband and son.

Masato Endo is the Group Manager of Driver Monitoring Group, Value Chain Service and Technology Development, Technical Project Field of Advanced R&D and Engineering Company in TOYOTA.

He focuses also on building the OSS governance structure within Toyota and developing relationships with the OSS community, through projects such as Automotive Grade Linux and the Open Invention Network.

From 2017, he began to work with the OpenChain Project a board member and set up OpenChain Japan Work Group with Hitachi and Sony. In 2019, he launched OpenChain Automotive Work Group to promote OSS Supply Chain Management (OSS SCM) and standardization in Automotive industry.

Originally, he was a patent engineer working with various technologies such as MaaS, Autonomous Vehicle, Navigation Systems, Intelligent Transport Systems, Smart Grid, and so on. His experience includes work in New Delhi to study Indian IP and External Affairs. In 2017, he worked for an IP project of the Japan Automotive Manufacturers Association and gave a technical lectures for examiners of each government of India, Thai, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.

I am an infrastructure engineer working on both on-premise and public cloud with a focus on Kubernetes and OpenStack. Mainly, I implement platforms and design application architectures. I also frequently give technical talks at both conferences and in the community as well as at other companies by invitation.

I work on leading open source strategies with different business units.

I started my career in OSPO in 2022 April. Before that, I worked on the development of embedded software for camcorders and cameras.

I am organizing the Japan OSPO Local Meetup in Japanese, supported by TODO Group and OpenChain Japan WG.

Muuhh IKEDA has been an OSS lover and believer since his first compiling by gcc in the 90s. He got involved in the Linux kernel development mainly for embedded and IoT usecases. He is working at Cybertrust Japan as a Lead Architect for IoT products and services, and a member of OSPO, which leads the activities for the OSS community. Muuhh is also a bass guitar player and a photographer.

Naoki Oguchi is responsible for development of infrastructure software, especially developing future technologies in Linux and Kubernetes. He has been with Fujitsu since 1992, working on communication software development including Frame Relay/ATM switch, IP router, Firewall, LTE/WiMAX wireless system, WAN acceleration technique, SDN, NFV and Data center network. He has obtained a Ph.D. degree in informatics. He also co-chaired the KubeDay Japan 2022. FSAS Technologies Inc. (FTI) is a group comapny of Fujitsu. Right now he is working for FTI.

Natali Vlatko (she/her) is an Open Source Architect at Cisco, specializing in open software, policy, compliance, and governance, and is a SIG Docs Co-Chair for Kubernetes. She plays on the fun computer in her spare time. Her academic background is in Egyptology and Archaeology; specifically, burial customs across the various kingdoms of Ancient Egypt. Ask her about dead stuff.

Noriaki Fukuyasu is currently VP of Japan Operations at The Linux Foundation. Noriaki brings experience from previous roles at Finantix, Turbolinux, Zend Japan and Turbolinux India. He holds a 1998 – 2001 MA in International Relations, International Development at Nagoya University. With a robust skill set that includes Business Development, Marketing, Eto, Linux, Platform and more.

An alliance manager in Sony Group Corporation. He is the chair of Open Source Software License Committee in Sony and works to improve OSS compliance and relationships with OSS communities.

He represents Sony as a board member of OpenChain project. And he is participating the SPDX project and a contributor to SPDX Lite.

Software Engineer at Apple

Prevously worked as a Cloud Native oriented Solutions Architect at HPE to help people with new technologies.

My responsibility and expertise at HPE was “Cloud Native” technologies such as Application modernization, utilizing containers and its distributed system such as Docker and Kubernetes. As a cloud expert, my focus was to provide consistent and powerful knowledge to each country team of HPE, as well as their clients so that they can deliver those new technologies as their solution offering.

Previously worked at ZOZO Technologies as an infrastructure engineer at MLOps team using GCP and AWS mainly. Especially familiar with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and its managed services on the public clouds.

AWS: EKS and EKS(both Fargate and EC2)/ELB&ALB/OpsWorks Stack/CloudFormation/RDS(MySQL and PostgreSQL)/Elastic Beanstalk/Lambda/Cloud Front(w/ Lambda Edge)/S3

GCP: GKE/Cloud SQL/Spanner/Cloud Composer/Cloud Build/GCS/Cloud Armor/Terraform

Misc: CircleCI/GitHub Actions/Docker/Kubernetes/Linux

Previously worked at hitomedia as a backend engineer using PHP and Android Java for two years.

OSS contribution: Kubernetes SIG Docs approver of Japanese translation/HTTP3 Explained maintainer(main translator of Japanese)

Philipp Ahmann is a technical business development manager at Robert Bosch GmbH with focus on Open Source activities. He represents the ELISA project of the Linux Foundation as ambassador and TSC chair. In 2023 he also became advisory board member of the Linux Foundation Europe. He has more than 10 years of experience in the field of Linux automotive SW base platforms working as engineer, team leader for testing and as project manager. All of these projects utilized complex multi-core chipsets. In his current position he contributes to a project focusing on embedded Linux and open source software in industrial applications and wider IoT scope beyond Automotive.

Sachin Mathew Varghese is a Lead Engineer on the Generative AI Platform at Capital One. He is an open source advocate and has vast experience building software products in the machine learning and MLOps domain focused on model serving at scale, deployment optimizations, monitoring and management operations. Over the last decade, he has built AI solutions at technology organizations across Europe, India and the United States. He is also the lead at the Linux Foundation AI & Data GenAI Commons Applications workstream focused on promoting the adoption and advancement of secure, open and efficient GenAI architectures and applications.

Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include building the largest open source governance community in the world through the OpenChain Project, spearheading the licensing team that elevated Open Invention Network into the largest patent non-aggression community in history and establishing the first global network for open source legal experts. He is a founder of both the first law journal and the first law book dedicated to open source. He currently leads the OpenChain Project and is a General Assembly Member of OpenForum Europe.

He developed ConnectionChain in Fujitsu, and execute PoC using it with revolutionary partners.

He was involved in establishing the “Hyperledger Cacti” project to enable the integration of blockchains into consistent Web3 applications. Governing Board member of Hyperledger Foundation since 2021.

I started my career as an embedded software engineer and worked in embedded software development for 9 years. I led the device control software development team for projector and digital still camera product development.

After nine years of research and development of software technology for FA systems, I became a leader in promoting OSS community activities at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. I discuss and motivate members of the OSS community such as PyTorch, Apache TVM, PostgreSQL, and Hyperledger.

I prefer a technology-centric / science-centric position, such as research director, professor, principal investigator, and, at minimum, senior data scientist, via solving social issues towards being CTO. The important points are Growth and Promotion. I’m glad that the position requires publications in international journal papers and conferences. It is better that it is located in North America.

My Achievement List (35+ reviewed publications and 30+ evaluated commentaries in Science):
– https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55972319700
– https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shino_Iwami
– Lectures at National University of Singapore (QS2022 11th), the University of Tokyo (23rd), Osaka University (75th) and Nihon University

My professional experiences are:
– IT Evangelist (From R&D to marketing about OSS; From machine learning to English presentation)
– COE Architect (Connected Car, Blockchain)
– Researcher and Data Scientist in a governmental institute and universities.
– Information Security Professional.
– Application Developer in artificial intelligence (machine learning, natural language processing), Linux-embedded system, web applications and digital forensics.

Shinsuke Kato was a developer for Panasonic Holdings Corporation, where he helped Panasonic R&D improvements to Linux for use in Panasonic’s products in the past.
And, He has been working with Linux and the OSS promotions in his company for over 20 years.
Recently, he has promoted the OSS compliance in his company. He has some seminar of the OSS compliance and provides advice on the OSS compliance.

Shu is one of maintainer for Kubernetes Dashboard since Autumn 2019 and one of chair for SIG UI. Before that, Shu has contributed to OpenStack Dashboard and its several plugins as core developer since 2015. Besides them, developping WebRTC application.

In 2014, I earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree, B.Eng. (Computer Engineering), from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Back then, I worked on Network Security on Mobile Adhoc Networks in expecting disaster situations.

In 2017 and 2020, I have completed my Master’s and Doctoral Degree in Information Science and Technology from Osaka University, Japan. My research theme was a Real-time Data Stream Processing Technology towards an era of Big Data in IoT. In particular, I have focused on a Fully-distributed Scheme Solution that leverages the concept of self-sustaining IoT, where any devices collaborate themselves on sensing, processing, and acting regarding shared human-defined recipes. My area of interest also includes data quality evaluation, delayed tolerant networks, and data sharing encouragement.

From April, 2020, I have started my journey as a researcher in IBM Research Japan Team for performance optimization work on Hybrid Cloud. The research project has highlighted the challenges of evaluating, enhancing, and optimizing services with modular architectures distributing on the cloud and expecting an automatic recommendation for upgrading service-providing efficiency and value.

Takashi Ninjouji, Chief Specialist at Toshiba Corporation, works on open source, open standards, and open source compliance and was the first head of OSPO. He is strongly attracted to open source to collaborate with diverse communities.

He is a member of the OpenChain Project’s governing board, the Automation Subgroup Leader and SBOM-SG Co-Sub-Leader of the OpenChain Japan Workgroup, and a contributor to SPDX Lite.

Before joining Toshiba, he was responsible for risk management in DeNA’s technology development department and open source compliance. He was also previously engaged in research and development of human-computer interactions and mobile communication technologies at NTT and NTT DOCOMO.

I maintain and support in-house Linux distro which is used by server equipment system, storage system, network equipments, IoT devices, car multimedia system, and so on. That distro is based on Yocto Project and our team is top contributor of Yocto Project. And we maintain meta-spdxscanner which is generate SPDXs between build process

Tomohiro Misono is a multi-year experienced Linux kernel engineer at Fsas Technologies. His past experiences include the development of filesystems and device drivers. Currently, he is working on the development of ARM64 servers.

Toru is a Software Engineer at Preferred Networks, Inc. He is the creator and lead developer of youki, an OCI Runtime in Rust, and a maintainer of the OCI Runtime Specification. Additionally, he serves as a reviewer for runwasi and is involved in developing a world that utilizes containers and Wasm. Additionally, he is a member of the Kubernetes org and is especially interested in developing the Kubernetes scheduler.
Since 2023 Fall, he has been active as a CNCF Ambassador.

Industry relationship and alliance experience for Linux and Open Source. Open Source development experience. Japanese Software/IT industry experience and relationship with outside of Japan such as US, EU, China, Vietnam and India.

For OpenSource experience, He is maintaining some documents in Linux mainline since 2.6.23. He is leading OpenStack community development team.

I lead Machine Learning for ViralGains a MarTech startup based out of Boston. Previously, I held Data Science leadership positions are Airbnb, Microsoft, and Amazon. I have a Masters degree in Applied Mathematics from University of Washington, Seattle. In my spare time I make OSS contributions for LLM evaluations.

Walt Miner has worked for The Linux Foundation as the Community Manager for Automotive Grade Linux since 2014. Walt has spoken at Automotive Linux Summit, Embedded World Conference in Nuremberg, Embedded Linux Conference, LinuxCon North America, and Open Source Summit North America and Europe. Walt has over 30 years of embedded software development and management experience in the automotive, mobile phone, and defense industries.

Yoshitake Kobayashi is the General Manager of Advanced Software Technology Office at Toshiba Corporation. A part of his team provides a Linux distribution for various Toshiba products. His research interests include operating systems, distributed systems, and dynamically reconfigurable systems. Additionally, he is the Chair of the Technical Steering Committee for the Civil Infrastructure Platform Project, hosted by The Linux Foundation.

Yoshiya Eto is a Linux Foundation Fellow and was a Vice President and General Manager at Fujitsu. He also served as Fujitsu’s representative to The Linux Foundation Board of Directors.

He has been involved in operating systems at the company, including development and management of Fujitsu’s proprietary operating systems and Linux. For more than 10 years, he led Linux community engineers in Fujitsu in working with the Linux community. Under his leadership, his team was one of the largest contributors to the Linux kernel and continuously contributed patches to improve features and the stability of Linux for enterprise use.

In addition, he led a core engineering team for enterprise customer support through collaboration with distributors and others in the community. The team provides highly reliable customer support to mission-critical customers.

Yoshiyuki Tabata is a Senior OSS Consultant at Hitachi, Ltd, responsible for IAM and API-related solutions.
As an authentication and authorization expert, he has provided numerous consultations, for example designing and building API/SSO systems in various fields such as finance and public.
As a CNCF Ambassador, he disseminates solutions and know-how for a better and more secure CNCF ecosystem through conference talks and contributions. And he’s a Cloud Native Community Japan organizer and a Cloud Native Security Japan founder.
He’s also a contributor to OSS such as Keycloak and 3scale.

Yuichi Nakamura,Ph.D has been engaged with OSS over 20 years, contributed SELinux, gave presentations in many OSS events such as Linux Security Summit, Embedded Linux Conference and KubeCon. He also launched ecosystem of business and OSS contribution model based on Keycloak in Hitachi,Ltd. He is one of the 1st evangelists of the Linux Foundation Japan and launched CNCF Japan chapter Cloud Native Community Japan (CNCJ) with community colleagues. He is also a board of the Linux Foundation.

Zhiqiang Yu is the Chief Open Source Liaison Officer at China Mobile Research. He has been a member of the LF APAC Open Source Evangelist team since 2022 and currently serves as the co-chair of the LF APAC OSPO SIG. Alongside Nadia Jiang and Jiangsheng Li, he launched the first OSPO Summit in 2023. Starting from 2024, Zhiqiang was awarded the title of OSPO Ambassador by the TODO Group.

Xie Ziyi is an active contributor in the Kubernetes community, currently focusing on documentation and storage. She also serves as an instructor for new contributors at Kubernetes Upstream Training events in Japan.